Sunday, December 23, 2007

This year I was determined to get some baking done with the girls, and being that things have been stressful and I haven't been feeling well...I decided to cheat a little!

Through my buying club, I bought Cherrybrook Kitchen's Gluten-free Sugar Cookie Mix. Since I had to buy in bulk, I received 6 of them (which ended up being a good thing-lots to practice with!)Our first batch was done according to the directions on the box, with a few modifications, using canola oil instead of margarine, hemp milk instead of soy milk. The girls have a current obsession with Frosty the Snowman, so our goal was to make snowmen. Once the batter was mixed, I began to add some all purpose gluten-free flour to the mix in order to soak up some of the oil in order to make the dough easier to roll out.

The girls had a blast, and we used Enjoy Life chocolate chips for eyes and some dried fruit and raisins to decorate.

Today we made another batch of cookies, only this time our goal was to make candy cane cookies. I did things a bit differently-I added almost a cup of the all purpose gluten-free flour while mixing the batter, and we also added some peppermint oil for that "candy cane" flavor.

Once the batter was ready, we divided it in half and added red food coloring to half of it. The dough was still pretty oily, so we were not able to really roll it out like traditional candy cane cookies. Instead- I made two long rolls-one white and one red, and then broke off chunks in order to make my candy canes.

The girls really enjoyed this, and made lots of creations on their own.

*The only thing I would do differently next time is add some xanthan gum to the batter when I added the extra flour. I think adding so much extra flour through it off bit, and some of the first batch didn't stick together as well as the second batch (when I sprinkled some in).

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I found you via Gluten-Free Blog. My household has been dairy free for a few months now... once we found out the baby has an allergy (anaphylactic reaction). I'm always looking for new recipes and am happy to have found your blog. Maybe you will find use out of some of my recipes, too. We're not gluten-free, though, so I'm not sure how that will work? Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself!

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to you too! Sorry-I am a little behind everything right now...still recovering from the holidays!I hope you find some useful recipes on here, as they are all dairy-free. I will definitely check yours out as well, and see if I can make some modifications on some :)

About this site:

Welcome! I created this site in order to help those who are living with multiple food restrictions. Our daughter Mara was first suspected of having food allergies when she was just 3 weeks old, and we were not able to narrow it all down until she was almost 16 months old! Because I am breastfeeding, I began many different versions of the elimination diet in hopes of finding the answers that we needed.Once we were finally able to pinpoint the foods-dairy, soy and gluten, then the question was "So what do we eat?" In the past year we have completely changed our diet-no more processed foods, and found that the doors have been opened to many new and rather tasty foods!

I put together this blog in order to share recipes, product reviews, etc. with the information I have learned. I am not an expert, just a parent learning to cook for the sake of her child.I hope to connect with others going through this as well, so that we can all learn from each other!